Slow Read Times For DVD-R DATA Backups

[mp3superfreak]

Over the past year, I have accumulated quite a few DVD-R's full of data from my various video projects (home videos, slideshows, etc). Recently, I've needed to copy some of the data from the DVD-R disks (Imation, Khypermedia, Princo 2x, Fuji) and have noticed it takes an extremely long time (10-15mins for 300MB) to copy the data from the disk to my H/D. The files are pretty large, but none over 1GB. I've tried both my Toshiba 12x DVD-ROM drive and my Pioneer 104 burner. The Toshiba is usually pretty fast ripping commercial DVD's, anywhere from 7x to 9x speed.

I thought my problem was the media, but one Khypermedia backup was notably faster than another (Khyper), and I used Nero to burn both.

Has anyone else noticed this? Maybe DVD+R's are better for data backups? Any thoughts?

Thanks for your insights...

[mp3superfreak]

Ok, after further testing, I guess I found my answer. It is the media. I just tried a Fuji DVD-R, and I was able to copy 550MB to my H/D in 3 minutes.

I was mainly having problems w/ Khypermedia disks. I knew these were cheap for DVD videos, but I thought they were ok for data.

Now I should have fun copying the data from those cheap sucka disks to some quality media.....

Khypermedia DVD-R's!!!!!!!

BTW, the Imation and Princo disks were also very slow. I expected it from Princo, but the Imations were $3/each when I bought them on sale many months ago at CompUSA.